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Biography

Professor Heath joined the University of Nottingham as an academic in 1993. He is the Course Director of the MArch Sustainable Urban Design and has previously been the Director of Architecture, Head of the School of the Built Environment and subsequently head of the Department of Architecture & Built Environment. He has also been the Associate Dean for Internationalisation and External Relations in the Faculty of Engineering and Acting Vice Provost for Research & Knowledge Exchange at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC). He has also acted as an external examiner in many prestigious universities around the World and also chaired accreditation panels for the UAE Commission for Academic Accreditation.

Professor Heath gained his BA (Hons) Architecture (RIBA/ARB Part 1) from the University of Manchester before completing his DipArch (RIBA/ARB Part 2) and Certificate of Professional Architecture (RIBA/ARB Part 3) at the University of Nottingham. He subsequently successfully completed an MA in Environmental Planning (RTPI) and his PhD in Architecture & Urban Design also at the University of Nottingham.

Professor Heath is also an experienced architect and urban design practitioner having worked in the UK and for the past 10 years in China where he is also director of a University spin-out company specialising in architecture, urban design, and building and urban environmental performance assessments.

Expertise Summary

Professor Tim Heath is the Chair of Architecture & Urban Design at the University of Nottingham. He is an RIBA and ARB registered architect, qualified town planner and experienced urban designer who is actively engaged in research, teaching and practice.

Professor Heath's research interests are broad and span architecture and urban design. As an academic he has published extensively with many books, chapters, journal papers and presented at major international conferences in the areas of urban design, conservation, adaptive re-use of buildings, elderly housing, vertical farming, sustainable cities and eco-urbanism. He also has a large PhD group undertaking research projects that focus on various aspects of these topics and together with these research students plays a key role in the Environment, People and Design Research Group. Significant publications include the completely revised second edition of the Public Places Urban Spaces (2010) book published by Architectural Press which has also been published in Mandarin, Traditional Chinese, Arabic and Korean. His latest book Heritage-Led Urban Regeneration in China, which is co-authored with colleague from UNNC Dr Jing Xie, is due to be published in 2017.

Professor Heath has extensive experience as an academic and practitioner in Asia and particularly in China. In August 2010, he also organised the high-profile international symposium 'Eco-Urbanism: towards sustainable living' at the EXPO 2010 in Shanghai. This event involved several prominent academics from across Europe, US and China including MIT, Tsinghua, Tongji, Nanjing, Tianjin, South-East, and Hefei universities. He also led a successful joint postgraduate architecture and urban design studio projects with Tsinghua University and Tianjin University and has delivered invited lectures at many Chinese universities. In 2016, he also hosted a British Council funded workshop in Yogyakarta, Indonesia which included academics from across the UK and Indonesia and focussed on the regeneration of villages on the urban/rural fringe. He has been a visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and in 2016 established a joint research laboratory with BRE (China) and Shenzhen University.

Professor Heath has acted as an external examiner for undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD programmes at universities in the UK and internationally. His current research interests are in the areas of urban design, architecture design, places and cities, urban revitalisation and historic quarters, and the adaptive re-use of buildings.

Teaching Summary

Professor Heath teaches architecture design and urban design studio modules to MArch students and he convenes and teaches lecture modules on urban design theory and practice to undergraduate and… read more

Research Summary

Professor Heath has successfully completed many research projects and has published extensively across the World in academic and professional publications. He has co-authored a number of books and… read more

Selected Publications

CAN, I. and HEATH, T., 2015. In-between Spaces and Social Interaction: a morphological analysis of Izmir using Space Syntax Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.

Professor Heath teaches architecture design and urban design studio modules to MArch students and he convenes and teaches lecture modules on urban design theory and practice to undergraduate and postgraduate students. He also supervises extended essays and MArch dissertations.

Current Research

Professor Heath has successfully completed many research projects and has published extensively across the World in academic and professional publications. He has co-authored a number of books and also written chapters in many edited books. He has also published extensively in refereed journals and conferences and regularly delivers keynote presentations.

Professor Heath welcomes inquiries from potential PhD candidates with an outstanding academic record and an interest in the research areas listed above. He has previously supervised over 20 PhD students to completion and most of these are now successful academics around the World.

Current PhD students include:

Kou Zhipeng: Vertical Public Realms

Hang Du: Humanitarian Architecture and School Design

Xie Linjun (UNNC): Smart Eco-Cities

Nor Syahila bt Ab Rashid: Adaptive Reuse of Malaysian Shophouses

Zhou Jie: Connectivity of Underground Public Places

Zulkefle Ayob: Green Urbanism and Walkability

Yamen Badr: Shared Public Space of Post Conflict

Wu Xianfeng: Learning Landscape Organisation in Vertical Campuses

Megan Nottingham: Persistence of the Berlin Block as Urban Form

Nikki Linsell: Architects and Humanitarian Capitalism

Negar Ahmadpoormobarakeh: Urban Wayfinding and the Role of Digital Technology

Lois Woods: Plan Making Versus Space Making in Primary Schools

Ibrahim Shinbira: Place Identity in Misurata, Libya

Qian Xiao: Creating a Place Experience: Beijing and Shanghai

Pan Qiongyu: Development Strategies of High Speed Railway New Towns in China

Completed PhD students (and their current university employers) include:

HEATH, T., 2016. Sustainable Urban Architecture: the life and death of sustainability - long live contextual senstitivism In: Keynote paper at The 3rd International Conference on Engineering Technology and Industrial Application, Surakarta, Indonesia.

AHMADPOORMOBARAKEH, N. and HEATH, T., 2015. The Image of the City in the Information Era: Analysing the Effect of Digital Mobile Devices on the City Imaging Process In: Hybrid City: Data to the People.

SU, G. and HEATH, T., 2015. Case Study Research to Understand Public Space Through the Perspective of Urban Life Interior Architecture of China. 132-135

ABDUL LATIP, N.S., HEATH, T., SHAMSUDDIN, S., LIEW, M.S. and VALLYUTHAM, K., 2010. The Contextual Integration and Sustainable Development of Kuala Lumpur's City Centre Waterfront: an evolution of the policies, law and guidelines In: International Conference on Sustainable Building and Infrastructure. 17

WANG, Y. W. and HEATH, T.P., 2007. Prospective and Retrospective Construction of National Identity: Tale of Twin Capital Building in Early Post-war Taiwan In: Telling Places: Narrative and Identity in Art and Architecture, University College London. 12 (In Press.)